Congrats to all the nominees!
Malice Domestic is pleased to announce the nominations for the 2005 Agatha Awards.
Best First Novel
Better Off Wed by Laura Durham, HarperCollins
Blood Relations by Lisa Tillman, Hilliard & Harris
Jury of One by Laura Bradford, Hilliard & Harris
Knit One, Kill Two by Maggie Sefton, Penguin Group
Witch Way to Murder by Shirley Damsgaard, Avon/HarperCollins
Best Novel
Owls Well That Ends Well by Donna Andrews, St. Martin's Minotaur
Pardonable Lies by Jacqueline Winspear, Henry Holt Books
Rituals of the Season by Margaret Maron, Mysterious Press
The Belen Hitch by Pari Noskin Taichert, University of NM Press
The Body in the Snowdrift by Katherine Hall Page, William Morrow
Trouble in Spades by Heather Webber, Avon/HarperCollins
Best Non-Fiction
Behind the Mystery: Top Mystery Writers by Stuart Kaminsky, Hothouse Press
Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her by Melanie Rehak, Harcourt
The Heirs of Anthony Boucher by Marvin Lachman, Poisoned Pen Press
The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes by Leslie S. Klinger, W.W. Norton
Best Short Story
Driven to Distraction by Marcia Talley — Chesapeake Sisters in Crime II, Quiet Storm
House Rules by Libby Fischer Hellmann — Murder in Las Vegas, Tor
Mother Love by Harriette Sackler — Chesapeake Sisters in Crime II, Quiet Storm
Murder at Sleuthfest by Barb Goffman — Chesapeake Sisters in Crime II, Quiet Storm
Rear View Murder by Carla Coupe — Chesapeake Sisters in Crime II, Quiet Storm
Best Children/Young Adult Fiction
Danger at the Zoo by Kathleen Ernst, American Girl-Pleasant Company Publications
Down the Rabbit Hole by Peter Abrahams, HarperCollins
Flush by Carl Hiaasen, Alfred A. Knopf
The Coastwatcher by Elise Weston, Peachtree Publications
The Curse of Ravenscourt by Sarah Masters Buckey, American Girl-Pleasant Company Publications
The awards will be presented at the Agatha Awards Banquet on April 22, 2006, held during the Malice Domestic convention. Attendees and Friends of Malice who were registered before December 31, 2005, were eligible to vote.
